Skip to content

I realized I don’t like aid climbing. It was boring. But I learned a lot about myself: [It was] long, four days of bad weather, couldn’t go out of my portaledge.

— Catherine Destivelle

Another quote →

More quotes by Catherine Destivelle

I didn’t want people to say it was the first female ascent, I wanted to be the first person to climb the Eiger onsight and solo in winter (though I don’t know for sure that I was!).

All Catherine Destivelle quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Catherine Destivelle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.